Oh no, not Crack!

I was home from work the other day when a friend of mine called me. It wasn’t unusual, but she started the conversation with “you better sit down…” That’s never a good sign! The conversation was about someone we knew. Now I haven’t talked to her since her birthday incident, which I mentioned here. And the whole conversation made another incident that I mentioned here a little bit easier to believe. I really thought she hadn’t done it, but maybe she did. Anyway, this is how the story went.

My friend K, who originally introduced me to Lisa called to tell me she stopped by a Jamaican restaurant owned by a mutual friend. Lisa and K haven’t spoken since they had a falling out in 04, but that’s a whole ‘nother story. S, the restaurant owner, told K that she and Lisa had a falling out too and they didn’t speak anymore. It’s such a long story that I can’t really go into it here. Basically S ended up telling Lisa she didn’t know how to treat people and she couldn’t have someone like Lisa in her life. If you hear the story, you’d agree. Oh, and the story also mentions Lisa pursuing W, who I mentioned before while she was encouraging me to go out with him. Needless to say, I was not happy about the story. That’s not the point of this though. S heard some things about Lisa and thought we should know.

A guy that knew Lisa stopped by the restaurant the not to long ago and asked S if she spoke to Lisa lately. When she said no, he said she needed to call her because “Lisa needs a friend.” He told her that Lisa was on crack. CRACK???? WHAT? HUH? She has lost a ton of weight and was doing drugs, according to this guy. Now, I haven’t seen Lisa since last year, but she was rapidly loosing weight then. When I first met her, the girl was a size 18. Last time I saw her, she was probably a 10. According to this guy, she’s 100lbs soaking wet. I knew she was losing weight rapidly, but I had no idea that was why. It also explains why the girl never had any money ever and why she would do that escort thing.

But that’s not the end of it. Lisa, one day, up and moved to Ft. Myers. Ok, for those that don’t know, Ft. Lauderdale is on the east coast of Florida while Ft. Myers is on the west coast. She didn’t really bother to tell anyone. She just kind of packed up and moved. By not bothering to tell anyone, I also mean she didn’t bother to tell the mortgage company. She just stopped paying the mortgage. I’m sure she didn’t mind so much since the condo was in her mother’s name anyway. Oh yeah, did I mention that she neglected to tell her mother she was moving too? Well, her mother recently moved about 2 hours north of here. The mortgage company tracked her down just in time to tell her that the house was being foreclosed on. She had to jump in her car and come down to try and stop it from happening.

What is going on with this girl? I’m so concerned, more so for her son than for her. Is he in Ft. Myers with her? How can she manage with him when she couldn’t manage while over here? At least here she had her mother and the baby’s father to help out, not to mention me and S and various other people who brought over food and loaded money when there was nothing to eat in the house or she had no gas or money to get to work. I know I haven’t talked to her since Nov, but should I call? I worry, but am I willing to put up with her crap again? To be used again?

Ok, the previous stuff was all written last week, but I hadn’t posted it yet. I didn’t call Lisa. I was still very unsure if I could be used like that again. K was obsessed with finding out if the rumors were true. She even resorted to calling someone she hadn’t spoken to in years. Unfortunately, the girl hadn’t talked to Lisa in forever because they had their own issues. So, K started pressuring me to call some people I knew to see if I could find out anything. She even wanted me to call W. I almost forgot that I never told K that W and I dated, so I just told her I didn’t have his number which is true. I did have the number of another mutual friend of ours. I called her last night so that K would get off my back, but I am still a bit worried about Lisa. Well, girl told me that Lisa moved to Ft. Myers and was doing well. When I mentioned how she hasn’t called or emailed me since back in Nov, she started talking about how Lisa needed to find herself. Yeah, whatever. I do know that Lisa is either not on crack or this other girl doesn’t know it. If she were, this girl would have told me to call Lisa and that she needed me. We chatted on for a while and this girl asked me about my future plans. I told her how I was still planning to move, but have been having a hard time selling the house. She couldn’t sell hers after Wilma either, so she is just renting it out. Skip to this morning. After getting ready for work, I noticed that my cell had a missed call. It was LISA!! I listened to the voice mail. “Sherie, it’s Lisa. I spoke to Lee last night and she told me you still haven’t sold your house. I have someone who is interested in buying over there, but I don’t know what you are asking for. Please email me today with your asking price and if she is interested, I’ll have her call you.” That was it. No “Hi, How you doing”. No “Sorry I haven’t called in a while”. No “Hey girl, I moved to Ft. Myers!” Nothing! I was so pissed off this morning. I can’t believe this bitch had the nerve to call me about business after not speaking to me in 3 months! Lisa is playing real estate agent now. I was so tempted to call right back and tell her to go to hell. I was going to get to work and send her an email telling her to kiss my ass. That I would rather work at my crappy job for 70+ hours a week than to have her get any sort of commission for selling my house.